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Criminal

Aug. 22, 2014

Police body-mounted cameras pose privacy data concerns

With little legal regulation to look to, law enforcement agencies must develop their own procedures on how to use and store this new technology, which has already been adopted by a few California cities.


By Kylie Reynolds


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Police departments across the nation have again taken up the debate about requiring officers to wear body-mounted cameras, in the wake of a police shooting of an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Mo. on Aug. 9. Proponents of the new technology - which has already been adopted by a few California cities, including Rialto and Oakland - argue cameras could have provided essential information about events leading up ...

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